Read it. It is appalling, but don't let society scare you FLT. These days the ills of society are more reported. It is more out in the open. Yes, it means that the young and curious get sucked in and that is where the media have a responsibility which they don't fulfil properly. And yes, there is more of it. Everyone is at fault. Everyone who couldn't be bothered, everyone who looked the other way, maybe just once. Society isn't about getting one over on someone else, or getting to the top of the pile. It's about looking around and making sure that everyone is OK. Well done to that little girl for having the sense to go to her parents. And well done to the parents for having worked hard enough to give the girl the good sense to be able to go to her parents. That's extremely difficult when the commercial side of society is trying to throw a wedge in between them. Yes, society has had far better eras and today's society isn't great, by any means, but it's the one we've allowed ourselves to be caught up in. I won't get caught up in the political reasons how we got to this point - I know them. A better society comes about with people giving a **** outside their own family circle. Just like that young child did when she tried to protect her friends. As adults we make a decision to look the other way. We don't have to.
You are with the best people if you are feeling that way, Jen. Your natural urge will be to hide away but to be alone with your thought is the worst thing to do because your mood will become lower and you need to fight it. Don't pretend to be happy, talk it out with the family member you are closest too, they will be more than happy to listen as they care about you. I have a friend who became low after his marriage broke up, he was estranged from his family. We tried our best to get him socialize with us, but he kept himself to himself and eventually he ended up in a depressed state of mind and on medication. After he got better he recognised that he should've talked his feelings and thoughts out with someone before he got ill. Cherish your family Jen, they are the ones that love you the most and don't be frightened to lean on them at this present time, they will understand.
Christopher Lee too? Ah man that is a shame. Great innings as you say though and what a body of work to look back on.
Love Christopher Lee in the Wicker Man - sinister and charming without even trying - amazingly deep singing voice too
Yeah, him singing at the end while Edward Woodward screams for his life gave me the creeps when I was young.
A Formula 1 car can reach 60mph in under 2 seconds. The speed of light is approx 670,616,629 mph. Let's say a car exists with no upper speed limit, even if it had the acceleration of a Formula 1 car, it would take 42 years to reach the speed of light. And yes I am bored......
There's that old one that a Saturn V rocket is the fastest accelerating human bearing vehicle ever made [think that's still true although the shuttle may have been even quicker]. But you can unpick that one so easily because from a standing start even a family saloon car could out accelerate it for the first few hundred feet, while it is overcoming its immense mass. It's when it gets into its stride that the Saturn V accelerates like a bat out of hell. The first stage of which is consuming 15 tonnes of fuel in a single second. I've remembered that little factoid from the 1960's. And by the way, a MotoGP bike can out-accelerate a Formula 1 car. Which is pretty bloody astonishing in itself.
53,000 Scousers meet in Anfield for a 'Scousers Are Not Stupid' convention. Steven Gerrard addresses the crowd.. 'We are all here today to prove to the world th...at Scousers are not stupid. Can I have a volunteer please?' Wayne Rooney gingerly works his way through the crowd and steps up to the stage. Gerrard asks him 'What is 15 plus 15?' After 15 or 20 seconds Rooney says, ' Forty!' Obviously everyone is a little disappointed. Then the Scousers start chanting 'Give him another chance! Give him another chance!' Gerrard says, 'Well since we have a capacity crowd, world-wide press and global broadcast media here, I think we can give him another chance.' So he asks, 'What is 5 plus 5?' After nearly 30 seconds he eventually says, ' Twelve?' Gerrard looks down and just lets out a dejected sigh. Everyone is disheartened and Rooney starts crying. But then the 53,000 Scousers begin to yell and wave their hands shouting, 'Give him another chance! Give him another chance!' Gerrard, unsure whether he is now doing more harm than good eventually says, 'OK then, what is 2 plus 2?' Silence hangs over the stadium. Rooney closes his eyes, and after a whole minute eventually says, 'Four?' Pandemonium breaks out throughout the stadium as the Scouse crowd stand to a man, wave their arms, stomp their feet and scream, 'Give him another chance! Give him another chance!'
This is a brilliant, fascinating and rather terrifying infographic/video about the human cost of WW2. Please give it a few minutes, it's worth your time and it's quite astonishing.
It is all that you said it was. Presented in a dry, friendly, and fairly unemotional way, the data speaks for itself. I can tell you that my eyes filled with tears when I saw the tragic numbers, some of which I already knew. I gasped when I saw the military numbers piling up for Russia, and then did so again when I was drawn to recall the tactics played out for the Siege of Leningrad. I was also born soon enough after WWII [13 years] to still feel that hard heart when I saw the numbers piling up for Germany and Japan. I felt little emotion for the aggressor. That's as far as I have come. I have no anger left for the axis powers of WWII, just sadness for all of them who didn't make it. It was definitely worth my time, LTL. Thanks for stumbling over that.
As you say, that is fascinating and terrifying, but with a hopefully optimistic conclusion. I had heard the figures before, but I've never seen them expressed in such a vivid way. Good find LTL.
